Sales

Amar is a principal at Sales for Life, a firm focused on pushing boundaries of social selling in the B2B sales landscape. Amar focuses on helping bridge the gap between social business goals and execution.

People Leadership

Amirali Nourbakhsh has spent the past 20 years working either as a manager in a multinational setting, or as a coach, trainer and consultant to multinational corporations including Unilever, Siemens, Shell, Samsung, Danone, Henkel and Dale Carnegie. Amirali has done research on neuroscience and has applied the discipline as a leader, leadership trainer and CEO of his company. As a certified coach, he has trained and coached mid- to senior-level managers to use brain knowledge to become more effective leaders and exemplify core values. Amirali is well published on the following topics: legislation, regulations, domestic and foreign policy and money laundering. He has an MA in International Relations, Economics and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London, UK) and an MA in Foreign Languages, Political Geography and Adult Education from the Justus Liebig Universitaet, Giessen, Germany.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Strategic Leadership

Andre Serero is an expert in strategic leadership, organizational design and talent management. He also teaches at the Ted Rogers School of Management and previously served as executive vice-president of CTVglobemeda Inc., providing strategic counsel to the CEO and senior executive team.

Financial Acumen, General Management

Andrea Chan, CPA, CA, is MNP’s Regional Managing Partner for Toronto North and a member of the firm’s Assurance and Accounting team. Andrea works one-on-one with dental, medical, legal and other professionals, delivering sound advice to help her clients achieve their personal and business goals. Andrea’s expertise includes developing customized plans for clients planning to start, purchase or sell a practice. Her experience allows her to walk her clients through the purchase or sale decision from beginning to end, ensuring they make the choices that are right for them. She specializes in developing projections and proposals as well as industry benchmarking, helping ensure her clients have sound strategies for the future Andrea also provides strategic advice on tax minimization strategies. She develops customized retirement and succession plans for her clients, helping them realize their dreams. Andrea earned a Bachelor of Mathematics specializing in accounting and a Master of Accounting at the University of Waterloo. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA).

Public Sector

Andrea is Director of Research and Outreach at the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). He specializes in public policy and public administration, teaching at the university level. Andrea has a PhD in Public Policy and has been Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University where he worked on the regulation of innovation technologies, especially biotechnologies. His research interests include public administration, governance, globalization, innovation policy, and political economy.

People Leadership

Andrea Swanson (MA, PPCC) is a certified coach and Organizational Development Consultant. Andrea has worked with executives and leaders in large complex organizations for more than 10 years. Andrea has a Master’s Degree in Organization Development and a Certificate in Personal and Professional Coaching (PPCC) both from Concordia University. She grounds her coaching and consulting practice in leading in complexity, leadership presence, human-centred design and the foundations of adult development theory.

General Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Professor of Policy/Strategy • George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics • Director, Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business BSc (Warwick), PhD (Nottingham) Andrew Crane's research and teaching explore new ways of thinking about the social, ethical and environmental dimensions of business. He is particularly known for his work on the changing role of the corporation in the global economy, where he has been influential in developing a new view of corporate citizenship that addresses the political roles and responsibilities of business. He has also focused on how ideas of ethics, freedom, and responsibility are communicated and made meaningful by corporations, consumers and other stakeholders through talk and text. Finally, his work has also addressed specific application areas of corporate responsibility, such as forced labour and slavery, competitive intelligence, responsible marketing, nonprofit partnerships, and responsibilities to children.

Change Management, Coaching and Collaboration

Andrew Levison has been a senior faculty member at the Schulich ExecEd for over 12 years teaching clients about Leadership and Talent Management. He is the founder and president of Above + Beyond, a Toronto-based Management Consulting Firm that specializes in Talent Assessment, Identification and Development. Andrew works globally across all industries in the private and public sectors helping his clients unleash their inherent potential for success. He is also an expert public speaker, executive coach and facilitator.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

A highly rated professor of entrepreneurial engineering at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University, Andrew brings to bear a unique understanding of the challenges of technology innovation and entrepreneurship developed from his direct experiences in working with client companies.

General Management

Andrew is president of ACM Consulting, a leading expert in operational excellence, and the author of Redefining Operational Excellence: New Strategies for Maximizing Performance and Profits Across the Organization. During the course, he will be teaching key operational excellence fundamentals, allowing participants to pinpoint new operational improvement opportunities in their organizations – in areas where most leaders don't normally look. Andrew does extensive training in the areas of innovation and collaboration, profitability, customer acquisition and retention, speed optimization, and strategy execution. His research has been published in Entrepreneur, Industry Week, PROFIT, Purchasing, Canadian Healthcare Manager, The Globe and Mail, and many other publications. Andrew also works with leading organizations focused on achieving performance boosts including 3M, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, McKesson and The Bank of Nova Scotia.

People Leadership

Andrew Soren is CEO of Eudaimonic by Design and part of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s internationally renowned Masters of Applied Positive Psychology Program. For the past 20 years, Andrew has worked with some of the most recognized brands, nonprofits and public sector teams to co-create values-based cultures, develop positive leadership, and design systems that empower people. He founded Eudaimonic by Design to bring together a global network of facilitators, consultants and advisors who share a passion for wellbeing and believe organizations must be designed to enable it. They harness the best of scholarship and years of experience to design systems that unlock potential and bring out the best in people.  He is on the board of the International Positive Psychology Association.